Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

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recipe. It is a text recipe to 33777. I'll get you all that stuff in another day or so. Now,

I want to begin in a roundabout way to talk about the news of the day.

You'll have to forgive me.

I am a professional.

Trust me.

I know what I'm doing.

You do need to know in the third hour of today's program, Mike Pence, former vice president of the United States, will be joining me.

But I want to talk about what's going on in Washington in the run-up to an announcement by Donald Trump about FTX.

It may sound a little esoteric to you.

It may sound a little abstract.

Let me see if I can bring this home to you.

FTX is a crypto exchange.

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